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My love is in a light attire Among the apple trees, Where the gay winds do most desire To run in companies. There, where the gay winds stay to woo The young leaves as they pass, My love goes slowly, bending to Her shadow on the grass. And where the […]

All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.

Search the Amazon Books category “how to write,” and 196,538 books turn up. (Think again if you’re slaving over a similar book.) I stick to classic tomes—chock-full of smart, practical advice. Take two: “A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the […]

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I never toe-squished from a rocky shore To wade into a duck-and-water cover That would salvage my muddy, sidestepping soul. The Mississippi sun’s baptismal fire Plunged me into turquoise-tiled bliss While polka dots snowed my slick lime Speedo— A state of grace fogging my goggles. This meditation ran long and lean, Paced by thirty-two concrete-grazed […]

In the dead of August, A few leaves yellow-scuttled yards Unready for rakes, autumn’s casual brush by— A 68-degree flirt with sweater weather after a fine rain. In a deeper South, the Amazon burned; The slideshow played, a frame or two, On a small screen, swiped by android thumbs Tracking the finer points of the […]